During the Kangxi period, there was a poor scholar in Qingshan Town, named Zhang Yuanzhi.

In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and most of them exchanged letters, so Zhang Yuanzhi wrote letters and painted for others for a living.

At that time, a woman's lack of talent was virtue, so the daughter of the local merchant Qiao, although she was from a wealthy background, was illiterate, and one day came to Zhang Yuanzhi to help write a letter for her father, who went out to do business.

While Qiao's was talking, Zhang Yuanzhi took a little pen and wrote it into the letter. It turned out that Qiao's mother had recently been seriously ill, but there was no good doctor in the local area, and she was a daughter's family, so she couldn't take her mother out of the mountains to seek medical treatment, so she hoped that her father would return as soon as possible and take her mother to seek medical treatment.

Qiao's family was originally a small jasper, Zhang Yuan fell in love when he saw it, and after writing the letter, he said that he could take Qiao's mother out of the mountain to see a doctor.

When Qiao Shi heard this, she was very happy, she had also begged the people in the family, but they all found various reasons to prevaricate and refuse, and she didn't want to be a stranger now, but took the initiative to help.

The next day, the two took Qiao's mother out for medical treatment, and half a month later, Qiao's mother recovered from her illness, and the three of them returned.

At this time, Qiao's father had already returned to Qingshan Town, and he didn't see his daughters at home, and he heard that he ran away with the poor Xiucai who wrote the letter, and the rumors had already spread.

When Qiao's father saw the three of them returning, he was furious and scolded Qiao's mother and daughter for not abiding by women's morals, and even made Zhang Yuanzhi not even enter the door of Qiao's house.

Zhang Yuanzhi was not thanked, but was humiliated, although he was unhappy in his heart, but it was nothing.

At this moment, he only has Qiao's in his heart, and in this half-month of getting along, Qiao's has already secretly agreed, and privately instructed Zhang Yuanzhi to ask the matchmaker to propose marriage.

Zhang Yuanzhi spent some money and invited a matchmaker, but Qiao's father refused, the door was not right, and he insulted him for being poor and talented.

Zhang Yuanzhi asked: How can I marry Qiao's family?

Qiao's father sneered: If you hit the lifter, you will carry the sedan chair eight times.

Zhang Yuan agreed, but Qiao's father regretted it a little, and hurriedly added a restriction period of one year.

The autumn (township test, once every three years, in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, so called the autumn festival) was in August of the following year, Qiao's father understood very clearly, Zhang Yuanzhi only had one chance, and if he missed it, it would be gone.

Since then, Zhang Yuanzhi stopped writing letters and paintings, concentrating on reading the sage book, in June of the following year, Zhang Yuanzhi went to the provincial capital to participate in the township test, Qiao's came to say goodbye, and handed over the sporadic soft to Zhang Yuanzhi as a coil on the road.

Zhang Yuanzhi promised: When the autumn chrysanthemum first blooms, it will be the day I marry you.

I don't want to do a lot of good things, when I took the township test, it happened that Zhang Yuanzhi was sick, and the answer article was not ideal, Zhang Yuanzhi thought that he must be named Sun Shan, and felt hopeless, so he made a suicide note, ready to throw himself into the cliff to die Xie Qiao's grace.

Fortunately, he was rescued by a Taoist priest when he threw himself into the cliff.

The Taoist priest listened to Zhang Yuanzhi tell the story, and made a hexagram for him, saying that he could be the first.

Sure enough, ten days later, he really won the lift.

After returning to his hometown, he really carried a sedan chair and married Qiao's back home.

The story should have ended happily here, but I don't want to be a few years later, and there will be strange things happening in the local area.

First of all, it didn't rain for a few months, and the entire Qingshan Town had no harvest, and then the Qiao family had a strange disease, and they were weak and angry, and they died within a few days.

Zhang Yuanzhi's wife also suffered from this disease and left behind, leaving behind a pair of sons.

Zhang Yuanzhi had been rescued by a Taoist priest, and he also studied Huang Lao's technique, thinking that such a strange thing was afraid that something was going to do it. Therefore, he sent someone to invite the Taoist priest who rescued him to come and help.

Taoist priest said: It's so weird, I'm afraid that there is a drought born.

What is a drought, it is rumored to be a zombie, and it is thousands of miles away when it appears.

And it is the weirdness of Qiao's appearance, I am afraid that this drought is also related to Qiao's, and Zhang Yuanzhi has always known that Qiao's has a tradition of vertical burial.

So the Taoist priest took everyone to Qiao's ancestral cemetery, and found that the ancestral tomb in a remote place at the foot of the mountain seemed to have a robbery hole, and now it was full of mud, and I was afraid that there were tomb robbers who had come.

The Taoist priest hurriedly asked people to dig the robbery hole, and after a while, he found a corpse, which turned out to be when the tomb robbers were digging the hole, and they didn't want to collapse, so they buried themselves in the robbery hole.

The people dragged the body out, and saw that the tomb robber seemed to have just died, and he was not decomposed, but his face was dark, as if he had been poisoned.

The Taoist priest said: This is a precursor to the transformation of the corpse, and it must be cremated.

The Taoist priest then suggested that this place was not an ordinary place and that he should not be buried here in the future.

But after that, the tragedy of the Qiao family continued until the entire family perished.

The Taoist priest was puzzled, but he retreated here for a few days, thinking that the feng shui of this place had been broken, so he bathed and changed his clothes, prayed to the emperor, and confessed for a few days.

That's it, it didn't change, and other families began to die of illness.

The Taoist priest sighed and decided to die to solve this disaster, and at the same time let Zhang Yuanzhi build this place as an ancestral hall and worship it for generations, so as not to let outsiders enter this place by mistake.

Later, Zhang Yuanzhi established an ancestral hall here, and also painted a picture of ascending immortals for Taoist priests, which was considered a consolation, but fortunately this picture was preserved during the turmoil, and it is still hanging in the school's warehouse.

I have heard the first half of this story before, it is all about my family and me, teaching me to study hard, so that I can marry a wife and get ahead in the future. And the second half is what Senior Sister Xuanji just said.

She is already beautiful, and when she came to town for a few days, the adolescent boys in those schools had already smelled the fragrance, and Senior Sister Xuanji went out to buy vegetables, and she could meet a bunch of people to talk to.

So a few days later, Senior Sister Xuanji sorted out the origin of the ancestral hall from the gossip and information of the boys of various families.

After listening to the story told by Senior Sister Xuanji, I couldn't help but admire that Taoist priest who sacrificed himself for others.

I regret it a little, I shouldn't have told Senior Sister Xuanji about the school, if there is another tragedy of the Qiao family, then I am not the culprit.

Today is Saturday, and there is no one in the school at night, so we climbed over the fence, but Senior Sister Xuanji led us to the teaching building next to us, and I hurriedly asked, "Isn't our goal the ancestral hall on that step?" ”

Senior Sister Xuanji explained: "We need to take a look at the immortal ascension picture drawn by Zhang Yuanzhi for the Taoist priest first, and see his outfit, so that we can know which faction it is, and it is easy to crack the Taoist technique he set up." ”

The school warehouse is in the basement of the school building, and now it is locked, and I don't know how to get in.

I saw Su Xuanke walk to the lock, whisper a spell to the lock, and then his finger sealed, and with a pull, the lock was opened. I stood next to me and opened my mouth wide, surprised, Senior Sister Xuanji looked at my appearance, sneered, pulled me, motioned for me to go in together, and explained to me as she walked.

Su Xuanke used the secret spell on the "Book of Luban", Lu Ban was the ancestor of the ancient craftsman, and the book he left behind is called the "Book of Luban", which contains Taoism, mechanisms, spells and various solutions. It is said that after learning the Luban book, you must "lack one door", and the widow, widow, lonely, lonely, and disabled can choose the same, so the "Luban Book" is also known as "The Missing Door".

I stared at Su Xuanke walking in front of me, and saw that he was in his prime, and he was not lacking.

Senior Sister Xuanji seemed to see through my heart, and said: "Senior Brother Xuanke only understands a little, this "Luban Book" contains the curse of heaven, and we have a senior brother who specializes in learning this, and now his legs have long been crippled. So even if you're curious, don't do too much research. ”

I nodded, it seems that she really treats me as a younger brother, and she still preaches me when she has nothing to do.

After entering the warehouse, Senior Sister Xuanji turned on the light, and now there is no one and it is not in the way.

I saw that the warehouse was full of discarded tables, chairs, benches and other objects, and the picture of ascending to immortality was hung on the innermost wall, and we stepped over the obstacles, climbed over, and looked carefully.

On the far right side of the picture is written in block letters: Ascension to Immortals.

Next to him is a Taoist priest, wearing a Taoist robe and a Zhuangzi scarf, riding on a crane and flying in the air, implying ascension to heaven, chic and elegant. On the ground next to it, there is an ancient ancestral hall, the door is full of people, as if reluctant, waving goodbye, there are some flowers and plants scattered on the ground, it may be the relationship between ink paintings, flowers and plants are very abstract, especially grass, all connected together.

Su Xuanke looked at it for a while and asked, "Senior sister, do you feel it, this picture is weird?" ”

Senior Sister Xuanji nodded and said: "Especially this Taoist priest, I can't see the faction at all, the ancients painted, paying attention to the artistic conception of the gods, and the overall harmony, but this Taoist priest, I feel that the painting style is a bit biased." ”

Su Xuanke asked, "Wasn't it painted by one person?" ”

Senior Sister Xuanji didn't answer, but continued to observe, and after a while, she suddenly asked: "You say, in this immortal ascension picture, although this person is wearing a Taoist uniform, is it possible that he is not a Taoist priest at all?" ”

If it's not a Taoist, who is that? Could it be that he is Zhang Yuanzhi?